Word: vital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Burner was expected to be a vital player in Steen's efforts to improve HASCS. The employee described the departure as a "blow" to the new director's plans...
...tense days last week, the prestige of the Russian space program -- and the well-being of three cosmonauts -- was in jeopardy as a planned rendezvous in orbit went suddenly awry. A Progress rocket laden with food and other vital supplies glided up to -- and right past -- the Mir space station. Ground controllers then made a second effort to dock the two craft, but failed. By late Friday afternoon, the Progress could make only one last pass; this time cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko would try to maneuver Mir into a favorable position. Finally, with no more room for error, Malenchenko...
...resolving things at his hospital, where medicines and other vital supplies have almost disappeared, has left him frustrated. He lacks the opportunity to get ahead. Even his medical journals no longer arrive. "Things are changing, but there is no hope for a better life now," says the doctor, because he does not believe Castro will ever initiate full-scale reform. "There is a lot of support for the government in an emotional way," he reflects. "You hear a lot of old ladies talking about Fidel as if he were Jesus Christ. But young people are like...
...considered "essential," meaning they cannot be manufactured by the body. Like minerals and vitamins, they must be ingested as food. "If we don't eat enough," says Siguel, "then we won't have enough." And that would be unfortunate, for these compounds -- principally linoleic acid and linolenic acid -- are vital to the maintenance of cell membranes and to the manufacture of potent chemical messengers that regulate everything from blood pressure to the firing of nerves...
Time Inc. is America's largest magazine publisher and one of its largest book publishers, a vital and fast-growing part of Time Warner Inc. around the world. Brack assumed the CEO post for magazines in 1986 and for all of Time Inc. in 1990, and under his energetic leadership, the number of magazines we publish has increased from eight to 24, and revenues rose from $2.1 billion to $3.3 billion last year. He presided over the first successful launch of a weekly magazine in the U.S. in two decades, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. His record speaks for itself, and he passes...